Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kraye, Jill (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Saarinen, Risto (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Σειρά: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy, 57
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Religion.; Ethics.; Law.; Philosophy, general.; History of Philosophy.; Religious Studies, general.; Law, general.

This volume investigates the paradigm changes which occurred in ethics during the early modern era (1350-1600). While many general claims have been made regarding the nature of moral philosophy in the period of transition from medieval to modern thought, the rich variety of extant texts has seldom b...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Scholastics and Neo-Scholastics
• Sources and Authorities for Moral Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Thomas Aquinas and Jean Buridan on Aristotle’s Ethics
• Action, Will and Law in Late Scholasticism
• Michael Baius (1513-89) and the Debate on ‘Pure Nature’: Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism
• On the Anatomy of Probabilism
• Casuistry and the Early Modern Paradigm Shift in the Notion of Charity
• Theories of Human Rights and Dominion
• Poverty and Power: Franciscans in Later Medieval Political Thought
• The Franciscan Background of Early Modern Rights Discussion: Rights of Property and Subsistence
• Justification through Being: Conrad Summenhart on Natural Rights
• Ethics in Luther’s Theology: The Three Orders
• The Reason of Acting: Melanchthon’s Concept of Practical Philosophy and the Question of the Unity and Consistency of His Philosophy
• Natural Philosophy and Ethics in Melanchthon
• Ethics in Early Calvinism
• Aristotelianism and Anti-Stoicism in Juan Luis Vives’s Conception of the Emotions
• The Humanist as Moral Philosopher: Marc-Antoine Muret’s 1585 Edition of Seneca.